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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Devils, Ahmad thinks. These devils seek to take away my God. All day long, at Central High School, girls sway and sneer and expose their soft bodies and alluring hair. Their bare bellies, adorned with shining navel studs and low-down purple tattoos, ask, What else is there to see? Boys strut and saunter along and look dead-eyed, indicating with their edgy killer gestures and careless scornful laughs that this world is all there is - a noisy varnished hall lined with metal lockers and having at its end a blank wall desecrated by graffiti and roller-painted over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...righteous self-restraint, but their shifty eyes and hollow voices betray their lack of belief. They are paid to say these things, by the city of New Prospect and the state of New Jersey. They lack true faith; they are not on the Straight Path; they are unclean. Ahmad and the two thousand other students can see them scuttling after school into their cars on the crackling, trash-speckled parking lot like pale crabs or dark ones restored to their shells, and they are men and women like any others, full of lust and fear and infatuation with things that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...Ahmad is eighteen. This is early April; again green sneaks, seed by seed, into the drab citys earthy crevices. He looks down from his new height and thinks that to the insects unseen in the grass he would be, if they had a consciousness like his, God. In the year past he has grown three inches, to six feetmore unseen materialist forces, working their will upon him. He will not grow any taller, he thinks, in this life or the next. If there is a next, an inner devil murmurs. What evidence beyond the Prophet's blazing and divinely inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

...more at possible strikes against Iran's nuclear assets. We are heading toward another unjustified war, but this one could be much more dangerous than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It is time for American citizens to decide whether they like to be viewed as a warring nation. Zeeshan Ahmad Lahore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...9/11, despite the fact that it was the victim. Does that not prove that U.S. policies have been misguided? I hope that ordinary Americans will not remain silent but will realize that love, affection, peace and justice are good for them and cannot be achieved by the sword. Zeeshan Ahmad Lahore Oil Pressure In the interview with U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte [April 24], Time should have asked whether he realizes that another Pearl Harbor is around the corner. It will be not a military attack but a political and economic blow that will cripple the U.S. Tehran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ways of Opus Dei | 5/9/2006 | See Source »

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